Charles Tiebout

Charles Mills Tiebout (1924–1968) was an economist and geographer most known for his development of the Tiebout model, which suggested that there were actually non-political solutions to the free rider problem in local governance. He earned recognition in the area of local government and fiscal federalism with his widely cited paper “A pure theory of local expenditures”.^[1] He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1950, and received a PhD in economics in University of Michigan in 1957. From 1954-1958, Tiebout served as a lecturer and assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. From 1958-1962 was an assistant then associate professor of economics at UCLA. He was Professor of Economics and Geography and was co-director for the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Washington. He died suddenly on January 16, 1968, at age 43.

Tiebout is frequently associated with the concept of foot voting, that is, physically moving to another jurisdiction where policies are closer to one's ideologies, instead of voting to change a government or its policies.

Major publications[]

• Tiebout, C. (1956). "A pure theory of local expenditures". Journal of Political Economy. 64 (5): 416–424. doi:10.1086/257839. S2CID 10281240.
• Tiebout, C. (1956). "Exports and regional economic growth". Journal of Political Economy. 64 (2): 160–164. doi:10.1086/257771. S2CID 153430854.
• Tiebout, C. (1960). "Community income multipliers: a population growth model". Journal of Regional Science. 2 (1): 75–84. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1960.tb00836.x.
• Tiebout, C. (1961). "An economic theory of fiscal decentralization". NBER, public finances, needs, sources, and utilization. Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 79–96.
• Tiebout, C.; Hansen, W. L. (1963). "An intersectoral flows analysis of the California economy". Review of Economics and Statistics. 45 (4): 409–418. doi:10.2307/1927925. JSTOR 1927925.

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External links[]

• Charles Tiebout page at University of Washington site
• Information about Charles Tiebout in William A. Fischel article "Municipal Corporations, Homeowners, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax"
• Charles Tiebout at Find a Grave
• "Charles Tiebout". JSTOR.
• Charles Tiebout publications indexed by Google Scholar

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